The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-01-04
STORIES OF REPORTERS.
A Class Of Men About Whom Most y
sons Know Little.

sons Know Little.
Most persons never saw reporter 70 hDS
one Tons of thousands in private lie 80 80
seen reporters only at meetings or 10 pDn~ -
places. Even in New York, where REQ 'Ii-5
is a very old profession, tho business , nv
clearly understood and reporters are P'',,u ,.IC
ally meeting persons who say TO the~'
YOU want an itemw or HHellol VIII "i0'
you at firol" precisely as il newsget"'e "''
like fishing or was pursued as colcctG' oea' ~
for butterflies in hand. To telliDo "oi ~
that reporters lin New York. at 'p'.I oniy
seek what their city editors send tbel' " ui'''
Is to run the risk of being thought Oh ii'PoS
ter. But in oil communities tn '0Yoi ,ei'
have experiences almost as queer o Aiy 'ney
report.
There Is a gifted news getth III ,o"h'
H.. ,roicht &c about 3o0 norn1s, and the
quality of whoso.work Is propertoiec 70 niS
size Ho was taking down sPeecn nm n, snore-
hand not long ago in Tammap nan "nen
al Irishman in tho gallery spied Hnn anu S',iu
to his neighbor: aOch, will p lux ac one
so;z. .v that mon and him airing his living
wild little pencill" A New iolA re.OrCer
sent to Newark once, went houSe he
should not have gono TO, misDAins ~ ioi one
farther up the street, where "'S W iiOei,
view q man. The man OF " nouSe 'peneu
the door. II am reporter Soiu .no inter-
x;aw.r The man nnlled lin In almost by
main force. "For heaven' sahe' said he'
chow do you reporters gei IDid VI 'niiiss oe
foro they happenp He Lei MN inCo the par,
lor and shut the door. HN"' Said Ne ten
mo how Won knew what was going to do.
7 swear have never tol soul" The re-
porter, equally amazed, s1i ne eue7'sco 'nere
was mistake; he was eNinS i'i so-anu d.
That night the man tEee"hipleu ahotnsr
citizen for insulting his wife, He must have
Thought tho renorter "; u mind reader who
had come TO get the neSs ahead OIL vine.
When | was callOvl was charged Win the
tooy NJ eYnosino tn ts public the overcrowd-
inc of tn. nublic sctnlS reached the first
scbool bonse earlys the morning, entered
the assembly roomd tho girls department
and exnlainsd to be lady principal that
ua,s ranorter arldesired to look through
the buiIding Toiry horror, she turned to
the nunils and saia Young ladies, this gen.
tIen1,n ia the edity Of The Sun, who desires
m oddress Won tbs morning." There was no
rafting ont of /. 1t was fun, toO-for the
girls Kirk Murp's experience must be told,
also even at th risk of his having burr
unon il He WIS Ireen at tho business when
bo was sent to prt a religious revival in
youpc DR.. Tyr5Ichurch. The pastor hap
pened to be ntnhg from person to person in
the congregad and reached Munro just as
that vouny nj entered the door. "My dear
brotherp sail -kng, "are you follower OF
! Christi aH Said Munro; "rm "a Sun
reporter"
got a nd few Of my calling once when
the city edl, Mr.. Bogart, sent me after
/ something E)ther on the east side Of town.
( found nj Ian and approached him with
aAre youjr. Feldstickerr "Yah," he re-
plied 9Ifaa reporter of The Sun, said l.
awe bee{ying ever since to think what hs
meant bJ reply. Perhaps he did not un'
derstanI cor else didn't know what hs
was sayf At any rate, when said vas
reporf1of The Sun, he replied in father
ly tone ii of kindly sympathy: @Sol Veil
veil, VI ,an't help dot. Julian Ralph In
The Jd 1alist.